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Pavel Durov: “The Russian tech environment became much less liberal, losing freedom as one of its competitive advantages”

“Facebook is losing traction within the younger generation,” Vkontakte founder and former CEO Pavel Durov told UK magazine Dazed, while Telegram, the messenger which he created in, now attracts 50 million users worldwide. Presenting himself as an advocate of political freedom and tech individualism, Durov also shared his thoughts about Russia’s latest evolutions and his dream …

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Tomasz Czechowicz of Polish fund MCI: “We believe it’s a time to buy and build in Russia”

While several international investors have suspended or reduced activities in Russia, MCI, a major Polish fund, is continuing to invest in the country, among others. Its current Russia portfolio includes KupiVIP, Travelata and Oktogo. In this exchange with East-West Digital News, the fund’s managing partner Tomasz (Janusz) Czechowicz shares his vision of the Russian digital market, and …

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KupiVIP survey: New online consumer behavior emerging in crisis times

In a survey of its customers conducted in February, fashion flash sales site KupiVIP.ru found that new online consumer behavior is emerging in the current unstable economic context. No less than 83% of clothing and footwear buyers are looking primarily for discounted products — a proportion 1.5 times higher than in early 2014. The survey also found that 58% have more …

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Siberian startup launches auction-based hotel booking platform

A resident of the KRITBI innovation business incubator in Krasnoyarsk, in Siberia, has come up with a new IT project called “TourBazaar,” which enables users to book Russian hotels, tourist and recreation centers online. TourBazaar’s developers have demonstrated a fairly unorthodox approach to organizing a service in this highly competitive market segment. For example, TourBazaar collects …

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Personal data storage and management in Russia: Report by EWDN and EY sheds full light on legal and organizational challenges

From September 1, 2015, companies operating in Russia will be required to store their users’ or clients’ personal data on servers located physically on Russian territory. A white paper released by East-West Digital News, in partnership with EY and leading market players, sheds full light on the legal and organizational aspects of the matter.

Russian programmer discusses fitness bracelets and ‘smart watch’ security

Roman Unuchek, an expert on mobile threats from the Kaspersky Lab, has been able to break into dozens of fitness bracelets while testing their security. He spoke about his research and the possible consequences for users of the devices on his blog. A special application for mobile devices that employs Bluetooth LE technology is used for …

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Kaspersky shares your computer secrets in weekly sauna meetings with Russian secret service, asserts Bloomberg

“The company securing your Internet has close ties to Russian spies,” Bloomberg asserts in a story published last week. The news agency sees a predestination to spying in every milestone of the life of Kaspersky Labs founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky: “He was educated at a KGB-sponsored cryptography institute, then worked for Russian military intelligence, and in …

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Mozilla makes Yandex the default search engine for Firefox in Turkey

Earlier this week Yandex.Turkey and Mozilla Corporation announced that Yandex will be the default search engine for Turkish language versions of Firefox on mobile and desktop, starting with Firefox’s next update, planned for this week. “The agreement is part of Mozilla’s new strategy to promote choice by making locally relevant search engines the default in various …

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Digital advertising leads Russian ad market in 2015

Last month research agency Proximity, part of BBDO Russia, conducted a survey on Russian marketing efforts for 2015.  The survey on Russian advertising asked respondents from major industries such as Finance, Auto, Retail, and Healthcare about their marketing adjustments in 2015 in response to Russia’s economy. Respondents included marketing directors, brand managers, heads of digital advertising and …

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Report: ISIS hackers attacked 600 Russian Internet resources in 2014

Hackers from the self-proclaimed Islamic State attacked 600 Russian Internet resources last year, according to a report by Russian Internet security company  Group-IB. The research used the Bot-Trek Cyber Intelligence technology, which is intended to track preparation and implementation of cyber attacks. According to preliminary estimates, several banks, construction companies, plants, governmental organizations and even …

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Russia’s SBT Venture Capital invests in Californian provider of e-commerce risk management solutions

Earlier this week SBT Venture Capital, the venture arm of Russia’s national savings bank Sberbank, announced that it has invested in IdentityMind Global, a Palo Alto, California-based provider of risk management solutions for e-commerce. Also participating in the round – the amount of which has not been disclosed – were Benhamou Global Ventures, Cybernaut Venture Capital and Lakewood & Company, the …

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